Romantic Art

Goya

• Spanish nationalist
• The Romantic side of the Napoleon wars
• Horrific, and emotional
• Painterly
  • Execution on the 3rd of May, 1808
  • Saturn Devouring One of His Children
  • Witches' Sabbath
  • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
  • Family of Charles the IV

Delacroix

• French nationalist
• "Color is painting"
• Painting as political statement
• Neo-Baroque
  • Liberty Leading the People
  • Dante and Vergil in Hell
  • Mephistopheles Flying
  • Massacre at Chios - (Full View) (Detail)
  • Abduction of Rebecca

Ingres

• Romanticism within a classical framework
• "Line is painting"
• Idealized beauty with exotic motifs
  • The Turkish Bath
  • Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville
• Radicals vs. Conservatives
  • Delacroix - Female Nude Reclining
  • Ingres - La Grande Odalisque

Rude

• Romantic sculpture with French nationalism
• Neo-Medieval elements
  • Departure of the Volunteers

Gericault

• Political struggle
  • Post Napoleon monarchy is hated and distrusted by the French
  • Eventually leads to the July Revolution of 1830
• Nature struggle
  • Man vs nature
  • Schopenhauer and the will to live
  • Raft of the Medusa

Constable

• Traditional Romantic landscape artist
• Idealization of nature - escapist and fantasy
• Paint and color
  • Hay Wain
  • Salisbury Cathedral
  • Salisbury Cathedral (view two)

Turner

• Radical Romantic landscape artist suggesting rather than depicting
• Impasto, vivid color and an extreme painterly style
• Industry Vs nature
• Romantic drama
  • Rain, Steam, and Speed, the Great Western Railway
  • Burning Houses of Parliament
  • Snowstorm

Nash

• Architectural exoticism
• Color and forms of an Arabic aesthetic
  • Royal Pavilion

Barry and Pugin

• Architectural Medievalism
• Form
• Historicism and the English Magna Carta
  • Houses of Parliament

More extensive and full-sized art works may be seen in the Art Gallery

Humanities Resource of Mark Hunter